 Hey, today we got a triple video. Not only is it a tech video because we're experimenting with a different camera. We have a booze. Is that going to focus? Yeah, a booze video and a low carb video. So let's see what we got. Hey there, NJRoot22.com here today. Over the last couple videos, I don't know if anybody watches any of these videos we do. I've been having problems. I've been filming on a Android phone and it's blurry. If you can't see the screen, you're not using the right lens. You don't know what's happening. I've kept the videos up for posterity. I don't need to be a perfectionist, but we're using a mirrorless camera today. We're kind of a cheapo lens, but I think it's going to work out a lot better. It's 15 megabit recording. I can go as high as I think 72, but I think this is all geek talk. But anyway, what are we talking about today? We're talking about this Bonn and Veeve spiked seltzer. Does it focus? Yeah, it does focus pretty good. How do you like that? Maybe I'm getting better. We like the spiked seltzers in general because they're low carb and they don't have sulfites. Some of them do, but they don't have the same kind of kidney and liver damaging junk in it that fermented wine has. I was drinking red wine for a long time and I noticed something was happening and it was definitely the wine because when I stopped and switched to something that wasn't like a fermented grape juice and some wooden barrel with tons of splinters, I feel a million times better. All my internal bleeding has stopped and I'm drinking a lot less alcohol overall, volume wise, probably half the alcohol. But we narrowed our seltzers down to Smirnoff sparkling seltzer and there's this new one that came out, Wild Basin, which I thought was good. I mean, the flavors were so wildly varying that some of them were unbearable and some of them were delicious, but we mix up our drinks with ginger and lemon. That's the way you do it. But today I'm trying this Bon and Vive. The Bon and Vive, I just felt like trying it. It's only six cans, four and a half percent alcohol and it's zero added sugar per can. However, if you're a low carb or carnivore type guy, you shouldn't be drinking an alcohol at all. But it's two grams of carbs per 12 ounces, which is double that of the Smirnoff and the Wild Basin. I thought about this a lot. I don't want to add extra carbs no matter what, but I decided to make a human sacrifice here because when you think about it, if it takes me, let's say for argument's sake, I drink a can every half hour. This is over three hours. It's an extra six grams of carbs, which, you know, burning and all this other stuff, it's not, I don't think it'll make much of a difference because carbs don't accumulate. I remember the rule of thumb was like as long as you don't eat more than, you know, 50 grams of carbs in a meal, a single sitting or within an hour or whatever, that your blood sugar won't spike too much. I don't buy that. I'm more like in the 10 or 20 gram per hour max. I never eat that much anyway. I might get it incidentally if I put cheese on my meat, but most of the food I eat is zero carb. So this extra gram of carbs is pretty significant. And keep in mind that some of the spiked seltzers out there have five grams of carbs per can, which at that point, you're pushing your blood sugar, especially if you knock them down fast. I water mine down for a reason and that's just to keep the, it's throttling the input. The reason I wanted to buy this was because I was over at Bottle King in Hacketstown and I saw, they had one flavor called the prickly peach, which you look on the box and it's only one gram of carbs. They didn't have that flavor at my, the shop right liquors I went to in Clinton to get this one for 8.49 a six pack and they charged 15.49 a case of 12. It's the mixed case for all these fruity flavors. I'm not even going to try it. I don't think I had them order me the prickly peach and I'm stuck with this. What's the flavor? Black cherry rosemary. I'm not a big fan of rosemary, but in this case, I'm going to try it straight up. I never do it straight up. It tastes like a black cherry soda. I don't taste any rosemary in there. I don't know. I'm not a big fan of rosemary anyway, but we'll save that for my next drink. Like I said, if you drink them straight up, everybody's going to have a different opinion about it because that's the way these things are technically designed to be consumed, even though they have a recipe on the back where you make bourbon and brandy and lime and and then mix it with this seltzer. That sounds like a really mega, mega drink. But I've had, I'm thinking about like can three or four and I have to say that the flavor of these, I think that extra gram of carbs comes from the ingredients. But here's what I'm not a big fan of and it's the source of their alcohol. In this particular one, it's cold fermented corn sugar. And I think that's where they get the alcohol from. And this has a couple other suspicious ingredients. Sodium citrate, which is I believe just the lemon, the tang, and then there's malted rice. So this, this has carbs in it and like more carbs. I'm not a big fan. So you got to be careful with these spiked seltzers. They're not all, all, you know, rainbows and unicorns, as some people like to say. But you know, to mix it up, I don't think I'm going to turn into a Macy's balloon from drinking six cans of this Bonn and Veve. But I think this is targeted at girls. They have like mermaids on the, on the can and it's, it's made from this company called Boat House Beverage in, they have all sorts of the locations here. It's a Norwalk Connecticut and Baldwinville, Baldwin'sville, New York. I have no idea what, I mean, I didn't do any research on this company. But I think for our next little experiment, human experiment, human lab rat, what I'm going to do is figure out a way to get the equivalent alcohol in one of these cans. And I'm just going to start drinking vodka. However, this brings me to an interesting point. I've categorized three different buzzes from the various alcohols and I've only picked three. I mean, there's, I'm sure there's other ways to drink. But there's booze, there's wine, and then there's beer or malted beverages. And I get personally three distinctly different buzzes. Beer, like just say Corona or Sam Adams first beer I drink, let's say the first half a can, I get happy. I'm like, eh, you feel a buzz. It's interesting. But then as I drink all that fizzy, malted hops and all that, I get gassy. I cannot eat, I mean, in the past, I cannot eat at all drinking beer. It just doesn't rhyme with me. And it's a lot of calories and a lot of carbs and beer, in my opinion. Guinness was also one of my favorites because that was very much less gassy and I could pound the Guinness or a botting things in a heartbeat. And then the next type of wine, which was my go-to for many years, is wine. I like red wine personally because it's less sugar than white wine, half the sugar. And I think the buzz is more sophisticated. However, like I said, the long-term effects of frequent, like six out of seven days a week, wine drinking became a problem. And my body was telling me and I listened. So I switched over to these seltzers. And then the third kind is booze. I mean, it could be tequila, it could be whiskey, bourbon, or vodka. And there's a couple other of those nasty ass drinks out there, gin, which is, gin is awful. But whenever I drank alcohol, I did it like in a highball glass, half alcohol, half like a cranberry juice or whatever. Every now and then in my heyday, we would do shots with lemon, whatever. Lemon drops, whatever they were called. But I think a 12 ounce at 5%, let's say, would be that six ounces of 10%, three ounces at 20%, ounce and a half at 40%. So I'd have to drink about an ounce and a half of vodka. That's just quick math. I'm not sure if I'm right. An ounce and a half of vodka probably equals one can of spiked seltzers. So if I drink six cans, that's nine ounces of vodka, I have to drink a night to equal the alcohol in here. So I'm going to try it. If I put an ounce and a half shot in my little ball glass here, I'm using the green straw, you're going to see the reflection that sucks, I mean the transparency. But the booze was angry. It's a totally different, it's not a happy for me and I'm sure it is the same for other people that hard alcohol has a totally different effect on a person and for me at least. But I think in the end that may actually be significantly less expensive than buying these seltzers. Let's say for argument's sake, they're eight bucks. Let's just say they're 15 bucks, a 12 pack. I would get probably 50% less money spent. I'll have to use twice the non-alcoholic seltzer to make my court of beverage here. But I think it's going to be cheaper in the long run. If I buy like a Tito's, a big jug of Tito's for 29 bucks, I could probably get like the equivalent of like almost two or three cases of alcohol worth of these. So that's a solid third of the cost. So we're going to try that next time. I'm going to do vodka, one and a half ounces of vodka per 32 ounces of ice and seltzer. So that's it. I don't know how you feel, but if you stuck through this 15 minute video, how you feel about what kind of alcohol you're drinking, how it plays into your low carb, carnivore, or keto lifestyle. But this is something I like talking about. And I hope that you enjoyed my little conversation. This isn't 30 second sound bites or quick video editing or me walking around with a camera in my face. This is just me having a conversation with a camera and the 10 people that like to watch in time. I will get my subscribers. You watch, I'll polish up my image. I'll start wearing fancy clothes. I'll do something. I'll have to probably sell out, which I won't do. I'm not going to sell out. I will not sell out. I will not sell out ever. It's just not worth it. Your soul is more important than selling out for a few dollars. I want natural people to come over and watch this type of content. So that's it. This new camera, we're using another new camera. I've had it for years, but SLR this time with an external mic. Let's see how it sounds. Let's go edit it in post now. Have a good week ahead.